Archive for October, 2011

Gil delivered a speech at last week’s Web 2.0 Summit called “A Path to Data Liquidity”. See the speech below and also an interview where Gil discusses Factual, our data, and our philosophy. Talk: “A Path to Data Liquidity” Interview:

The Internet is awash with data. Where ten years ago developers had difficulty finding data to power applications, today’s difficulty lies in making sense of its abundance, identifying signal amidst the noise, and understanding its contextual relevance. To address these problems Factual is today launching Resolve — an entity resolution API that makes partial records [...]

Gil will be speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit tomorrow (Tuesday 10/18/11) at 4:45 pm in the Grand Ballroom. His speech, titled “A Path to Data Liquidity”, will discuss how data accessibility is crucial to increasing rates of innovation and some ideas on how to facilitate increased access to data. The speech touches on some [...]

We are excited to announce the launch of the Factual App Gallery! The App Gallery showcases some of the great applications built using data provided by Factual. We are particularly enthused by the diversity of apps our partners have developed. Apps such as Plazaa.de (Germany), JumpZoo (U.S. and Australia), Conekta (Mexico), Fwix (multiple countries), DuckDuckGo [...]